[mdlug] Facebook was Re: Google Wave invites

[Peter Bart]

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:06:32 -0500
Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at opengroupware.us> wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 10:44 -0500, Peter Bart wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:07:50 +0100
> > Rich Elswick <painbank at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Farmville seems popular now.
> > Still Facebook. FWIW I think ranks as the most
> > useless !"@#¥^~%$&*?)(/\ ever. Sorry
> 
> Yea, "popular" and "useful"/"productive" are not equivalent.  

	Now, why are the owners of such "popular" time wasters multi millionaires while so many very useful application developers languish?  Not that everything in life must be usefull and productive, but some of these things just complicate my life! If one of these so called "applications" doesn't perform as expected it's immediately the computers fault. Which then becomes my problem, even if it's at the very rock bottom of my list. I wonder sometimes whether some of the slowness; of these applications; is due to them not being able to collect the same amount of information as from a Windows system. But mostly I'm amazed at how much of Mommy and Daddy's money little Dick and Jane waste on stuff they could do themselves. Like wallpaper for Myspace. 

> 
> Most of the social-networking hype, is just that: hype;  a passing
> fad. Yep, I'm a geek who works in IT, and I mean that.
> 
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Peter The Plumber
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